[tor-relays] Very unbalanced in/out connection ratio

2015-07-28 Thread mattia
Hello, I've been running a middle relay [1] for months and I have always noticed an unbalance between incoming and outgoing connections (monitored through arm). The incoming connections were always in between 0-10% more than the outgoing ones. This morning though the unbalance has reached so far

Re: [tor-relays] longclaw BWauth is broken -- no measurements since 7/22

2015-07-28 Thread starlight . 2015q2
Longclaw is broken again. Has not updated 55% of the the relay BS measurments for forty hours. Updated the ticket below with details and raise it to "major" issue. At 16:42 7/25/2015 -0400, you wrote: >Realized not everyone monitors this >list so I opened a Trac ticket: > >https://trac.torproj

Re: [tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

2015-07-28 Thread nusenu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roger Dingledine: > I wonder how many guards shift location significantly across the > Internet, and how often? For simplicity lets define 'significantly' as 'guard changed its AS'. Taking into account data starting from first of July. There were 5

Re: [tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

2015-07-28 Thread starlight . 2015q2
>(where a lot of IPs changed their AS from >IANA to Digital Ocean) A couple of minor notes regarding ASNs: 1) many IPs fall under a hierarchy of ASs where a large core-network provider (e.g. Level3) advertises a block and a second client leaf-AS advertises a sub- block. Sometimes the core AS adv

Re: [tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

2015-07-28 Thread starlight . 2015q2
At 22:05 7/28/2015 -0400, you wrote: > >A couple of minor notes regarding ASNs: > Also the AS number assigned to an IP address may legitimately vary depending on the source/observer. This is due to the relativistic nature of BGP routing. For example a Comcast address 74.95.187.105 is listed in AS

Re: [tor-relays] Very unbalanced in/out connection ratio

2015-07-28 Thread Yawning Angel
On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 09:04:44 +0200 mattia wrote: > I've been running a middle relay [1] for months and I have always > noticed an unbalance between incoming and outgoing connections > (monitored through arm). > The incoming connections were always in between 0-10% more than the > outgoing ones. >

Re: [tor-relays] pinning relay keys to IPs (or not)

2015-07-28 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 02:59:05AM +0200, nusenu wrote: > Roger Dingledine: > > I wonder how many guards shift location significantly across the > > Internet, and how often? > > So nothing to worry about to much I guess. Or to turn it around, it makes it a lot easier to dump the WFU (weighted fra